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Milestones in the development of smart card technology: 1970 - Dr. Kunitaka Arimura of Japan filed the first and only patent on the smart card concept. 1974 - Roland Moreno of France filed the original patent for the IC card, later dubbed the smart card. 1977 - Three commercial manufacturers, Bull CP8, SGS Thomson, and Schlumberger began developing the IC card. 1979 - Motorola developed the first secure single chip microcontroller for use in French banking. 1982 - Field testing of serial memory phone cards took place in France-the world's first major IC card test.
The 1960s. It wasn't until 25 years later that banks began to see the value of ATM machines. In 1967, a British inventor named John Shepherd Barron invented a cash dispensing machine. He sold his idea to De La Rue Industries, which named the machine DACS, or De La Rue Automatic Cash System.